ABSTRACT

This chapter explores Craig's several arguments for God's existence. The argument's premises 1 and 3 depend on a distinction between contingent things and necessary things, which can be questioned. Premise 2 reads, 'If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is a transcendent, personal being'. Craig would appeal to the tradition of apophatic theology according to which God is something ineffable and beyond all human comprehension. The expression 'fine-tuning of the universe' means in argument 4 is the suitability of the constants appealed to in physical laws for the development of life. Rosenberg attacks Craig's divine-command theory of morality by bringing in the Euthyphro dilemma. In seventh argument, Craig appeals to alleged historical support for the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Craig says that argument 8 is just an appeal to his own personal experience. Craig goes on to make the claim that the implication goes the other way: that is, that atheism entails metaphysical naturalism.